On the absurdities of an economic crisis-riddled country trying to look powerful and important through architectural grandstanding. Or as peasant singer/songwriter Nel
Monteiro sings in the film: “That EXPO World Fair 1998 / And the Belém Cultural Center / Are projects that do not fit / With the country’s misery.”
Also in this combined programme
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Reproduta interdita
When nurse Penelope Kruxis meets a nameless, teleporting mutant in the ruins of burnt-down Chiado, outrageous things are destined to happen. -
A cidade de Cassiano
A noir documentary about architect Cassiano Branco; or: Where has the promise of Modernism gone, and what could have happened to Lisbon? -
Lisboa-boa 345 D.T. (Remix 2019)
Will Lissabon be a Garden of Earthly Delights 81 years from now? This revised version of Pêra’s animation classic provides unexpected (in)
Film details
- Country of production
- Portugal
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 23'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
